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Nov 7, 2011 Uncategorized

God-honouring Public Service in an Ungodly Government

Our careers and our human institutions are made of clay, not lasting gold and silver. Yet they are means through which we experience the satisfaction of serving God and contributing to the wellbeing of others, in this place of exile.

Nov 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Isaiah’s Vision for Human Security

Next in our series on the OT and public life . . . Isaiah interpreted world politics through his theology of international relations, voicing a radical form of wellbeing not brought about by the tools of statecraft.

Oct 31, 2011 Uncategorized

School choice and certain vulnerability

Are Christian schools and public schools equally worthy? Why I teach in one but enrolled my children in the other.

Oct 26, 2011 Uncategorized

Moused-eared worldview

There is something more to Disney World. Alongside the modern notion of disenchantment is a powerful human need to be enchanted, to fill the vacuum left by old convictions.

Oct 21, 2011 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 10.0

Tenth in an expert series on must-read books.

Oct 19, 2011 Uncategorized

Dream Small

You don’t need me to tell you to dream big. But I do hope you’ll hear me when I encourage you to also dream small. Because that might be what really matters.

Oct 17, 2011 Uncategorized

Mapping Boundaries: The state, commerce, and trade

Dooyeweerd proposed a third way between radical liberal individualism and thoroughgoing statism that has principled implications for how we understand the relationships between state, commerce and trade, society, and the individual.

Oct 14, 2011 Uncategorized

Caveat Lector

This is not a book for those who already feel burdened by their long list of books to read.

Oct 12, 2011 Uncategorized

An Honourable Education, from Rule-Keeping to Principled Living

Becoming honourable means trading in “grade school rules” for the integrity of adulthood, pursuing happiness via the way of virtue.

Oct 10, 2011 Uncategorized

All Things Come from Thee: Persons, Property, and the Gifts of Creation (part 2/2)

In the
first part
, I explained the basics of the Catholic view, including the claim that property rights are limited by “the right to common use.” In this second half, I explore two applications of this view: 1) the principle that “need makes common,” and 2) the goal of “socializing” the means of production.

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